Radford Neal

The R Core group shows no interest in such things. It might actually be easier technically to think in terms of merging the useful features of R Core releases into...

The main benefit of merging R Core features into pqR is that recent versions of many packages depend on recent R Core features. Many such features have been merged into...

Hi. I think I'll response to this post in parts. Regarding the primary focus of pqR, I think I agree with you. I consider the traditional focus of R to...

Continuing my comments on your post... You point out an interesting inefficiency in many base functions - they're implemented with the .Internal mechanism rather than as primitives. As far as...

Some more on your post... Unfortunately, a project to clean up the code - even just cosmetically, making formatting consistent, using consistent and meaningful variable names, adding helpful comments, etc....

Regarding https, I think the commit you reference can't be all of it. A starting point may be this comment from NEWS for R-3.0.0: > It is now possible to...

Thanks for the report. I've investigated, and found that the bug is also present in R-2.15.1. It was fixed in R-3.1.1, which reported it as affecting formulas with exactly 32...

This is closely related to issue #42, which involved this code: a

There are two issues here. One is what sort of object these "structure" calls create. The other is what happens when you try to print them. Regarding the first issue,...

I've wondered about what to do about 64-bit integers myself, without coming up with any really good solutions. One approach would be to change current R integers to be 64...